What do you mean, relevant to the story? Clearly you are wrong - it's only fanservice, and the actual story wouldn't suffer at all if you removed it!
Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. I've seen this quite a lot in the CLAMP fandom, and I can't help thinking that people who dismiss the interactions between... say, Fai and Kurogane or Fuuma and Kamui as pure fanservice missed the point of the story to some extent. Sure, there are different ways to interpret those relationships, but saying that they're not important to the plot just seems so very ignorant. The same goes for many other series out there, even though there definitely are lots of examples of the opposite as well.
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What do you mean, relevant to the story? Clearly you are wrong - it's only fanservice, and the actual story wouldn't suffer at all if you removed it!Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. I've seen this quite a lot in the CLAMP fandom, and I can't help thinking that people who dismiss the interactions between... say, Fai and Kurogane or Fuuma and Kamui as pure fanservice missed the point of the story to some extent. Sure, there are different ways to interpret those relationships, but saying that they're not important to the plot just seems so very ignorant. The same goes for many other series out there, even though there definitely are lots of examples of the opposite as well.